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Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant -- New Report on Competitiveness in Clean Tech

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, South Korea, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, United States, Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Japan, Green Energy, Energy Policy, China, Solar Power, Green News

A major new report released today is the first to comprehensively benchmark the competitiveness positions of the United States and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.

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7 Solar Innovators From Israel to Get America off Oil

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Israel, Clean Technology, Solar Energy, Green Investing, Green Living, Green News

World rankings show that Israel is no small player in solar energy innovation and clean technology. A recent survey chose seven Israeli-based or -developed companies among a global listing of 100.

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Top Cities For Green Jobs (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Clean Edge, Slidehuge, Green Technology, Slidepoll, Best Cities, Jobs, Slideshow, Clean Technology, Green Energy, Green Cities, Business News

Clean Edge, a research firm with a focus on the "clean technologies" industry, recently released a report this month on employment in the clean-energy...

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Obama at MIT: The Nation that Leads in Clean Energy Will Lead Global Economy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Speech, Mit, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Operation Free, Veterans, Green News

Obama made an important point, saying that while innovation and discovery have always been part of the American DNA, there is no guarantee that we will lead the world in clean energy.

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National Institutes of Energy Needed to Fill Energy R&D Gap

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Research, Alternative Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Clean Technology, Innovation, Technology, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Green News

Downright paltry private-sector energy innovation spending leaves a massive energy innovation gap that the U.S. government barely begins to fill, investing only about $5 billion annually in energy R&D.

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The Israeli Army Gives Birth To Clean Technologies

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Israel, Clean Energy, Solar Energy, Clean Technology, Military, Army, Wind Energy, Green News

The clean technology industry in Israel is being fueled by military companies and personnel. Agree with the Israel's politics or not, it is good that something green is coming out of the army.

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Four Trade Secrets for Clean Tech Entrepreneurs in Small Countries

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Israel, Solar Energy, Clean Technology, Green Investing, Middle East, Business News

Businessman and investor David Anthony is about to reveal his trade secrets and insider information about clean tech investing in Israel.

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Clean Trucks: One Year Later

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Clean Technology, Port of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, Epa, Green News

Today marks the first anniversary of the launch of one of the most successful emissions reductions programs in our country's history -- the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Truck Program.

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Clean Tech Business Writes the US Senate: Pass Legislation Now!

Donnie Fowler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Senate, Copenhagen 2009, Green Technology, Economy, Environment, Climate Change, Clean Technology, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Green News

Dozens of private industry executives, investors, and business leaders from the clean technology sector have delivered a letter to the US Senate calling for swift congressional action on an American Clean Energy & Security Act.

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Could China Hold the World's Clean Technology Hostage?

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Beijing, Toyota, Mining, Hybrid Cars, Clean Technology, Wind Turbines, China, Green Technology, Green News

China could tighten its control over metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, raising the specter of a unilateral OPEC for rare earth metals.

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Five Ways California's Climate Law Will Boost the Economy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Green Jobs, California, ab32, Jobs, Economic Stimulus, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Global Warming, Green News

Full implementation of AB 32 will dramatically expand the promising figures already displayed by the growth in green jobs and venture capital in the clean energy economy.

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Let's Launch a Clean Energy Apollo Project

Phil Angelides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Collar, Green Collar Jobs, Green Collar Economy, Green-Collar Jobs, Clean Energy, Green-Econ-Green-Collar-Jobs, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Technology, Clean-Energy-Economy, Green News

America's new Apollo mission will spur domestic job growth, end our reliance on foreign energy sources, curb climate change, and position our nation to thrive in the 21st century.

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Fourth of July: A Long Road Ahead, But Reason to Celebrate

Clint Wilder | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Fourth of July, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Aces, Green News

I like fireworks as much as anyone, but the whole rah-rah America thing always seemed pretty distasteful when Bush and Cheney were running the show.

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Lobbyists Are First Winners In Obama's Clean-Technology Push

Bloomberg News | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Technology, Clean Technology Lobbyists, Smartspark, Politics News

At first glance, SmartSpark Energy Systems looks like a lot of technology startups. It raised $6 million in venture capital, employs 24 people and doe...

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The Youth Storm Washington

Benjamin Bronfman | Posted 03.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Green-Owl-Records, Energy Action Coalition, Economic Stimulus Package, Powershift, Economic Crisis, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Green Living, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Green-Youth, Benjamin Bronfman., Green News

This weekend, 10,000 environmentally activated young people from around the country will amass in Washington, DC to urge our government to get serious about clean energy and the economy.

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The Geography of Climate Politics

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Red States, Politics, Geography, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Sherrod Brown, Blue States, Clean Technology, Climate Change, Democrats, Energy Policy, Coal, Global Warming, Claire McCaskill, Green News

When it comes to the geography of climate politics, it doesn't break down along the much-ballyhooed "red state/blue state" divide.

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The Law of Incremental Suck (or Why to Never Give Up)

Hank Green | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Technology, Green Technology, Extinction, The Earth, Climate Change, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News

The more we do, the better off we'll be. The less we do, the worse off we'll be, and that is the law of incremental suck.

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Building the Electron Superhighway

Michael Moynihan | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Clean Infrastructure, Green, Infrastructure, Grid, Clean Technology, Green Energy, Stimulus, Green News

One proposal by the Energy Department would build major high voltage (765KV) trunk lines traveling East to West and North to South, particularly in the underserved center of the country.

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Morgan Stanley Floats Tidal Power Plans

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, S Renewable Energy, United Kingdom, Computers, Renewable Energy, Green Business, Green Energy, Morgan Stanley, Carbon Tax, Scotland, Green News, Tidal Power, Clean Technology, Oceans, Technology, Green News

Morgan Stanley plans to build a 150-megawatt data center powered entirely by tidal energy off the coast of Scotland, the banking giant announced earlier this month.

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You Get What You Pay For: The Decline of US Energy Innovation

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Renewable Energy Tax Credit, Ge, Susan Hockfield, Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Offshore Drilling, Green News

This country has let its guard down. We have been resting on our laurels of past excellence in engineering advances in the energy sector.

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EVs vs. Gas-Powered Cars: No Ride to Utopia

Bob Schildgen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green

Read More: High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Fuel Efficient Vehicles, Toyota, Prius, Alternative Energy, Green Technology, Fuel Efficiency, Electric Cars, Environment, Cars, Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Technology, Transportation, Green News

Hey Mr. Green, Is an electric car really more efficient than a hybrid getting 50-plus miles per gallon running on gas? How efficient (and green) can i...

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Google Goes Big for Geothermal

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, Alternative Energy, Microsoft, Green, Clean Technology, Geothermal Energy, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Green News

Google, Inc. announced plansto invest $10 million in an energy technology known as enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS.

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Could Israeli Muslims Kick-Start An Environmental Movement in the Middle East?

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jordan, Religion, Judaism, Evangelical Christians, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Environment, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Israel, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Middle East Peace, Syria, Green News

I've lived in Israel for almost a decade and was beginning to think that environmentalism in this part of the woods was a Jewish thing. Israel is burs...

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Middle East Oil Barons Turn America's Oil Woes Into Clean Technology

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fossil Fuels, Middle East, Peak Oil, Environment, Oil, Clean Technology, Treehugger, America, Green News

One would think that members countries from the OEPC in the Persian Gulf who are sitting on a quarter of the world's oil reserves would like to stall the development of clean technologies and thereby the creation of alternatives to oil, right? Nope.

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